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Tile drainage is a system of pipes installed below ground to remove excess water from farmland soil. Just as irrigation is often necessary to deliver water to soil and crops, drainage is important in ...

When the Des Moines Lobe of the Wisconsin Glacier plowed into north-central Iowa 14,000 years ago, it left behind a landscape dotted with swamps, ponds and wetlands. Early settlers in that part of ...

Northeast Wisconsin farmers are increasingly installing drain tiles in their fields to mitigate loss from major rainfall and ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Counterintuitive as it may seem, farm fields with the best tile drainage systems generally produced the highest yields during last year's drought, Iowa farmers and other ...